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A Narrative of the Federation-Klingon Cold War (2256-2293) A Star Trek Fan Project by @BadSocialism ||A @TranquilityPress Production
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THE LONG TWILIGHT STRUGGLE: Trailer for The Edge of Midnight
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USS New Jersey (NCC-1975) was the last Constitution built before the TMP (total modification programme) refits. Launched the day the Organian War ended, New Jersey would serve in the 3rd Fleet until 2276, when she underwent a minor refit to upgrade her technology.
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Starfleet Training Video "Make TMP Work for You", 2274.
The complete overheal of almost every starship system by the Total Modification Programme (TMP) required extensive retraining but resulted in a more streamlined, unified fleet.
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Admiral Robert April, C-in-C First Fleet (2258-2264). As one of Starfleet's pioneering explorers, and innovative leader of the Constitution Class project, he was the ideal choice to lead Starfleet's largest exploration fleet in the years after Burnham's War.
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The Whale Probe Incident of 2286 was one of the destructive events of the 2280s. While loss of life was thankfully minimal, the damage to sol-system wide infrastructure was immense. Eleven starships had to be written off, and Earth's weather control system had to be rebuilt.
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USS Hood passes USS Dunkerque on space trials, November 2322.
USS Hood (NCC 2541) was one of the last Block I-II Excelsior's built; in many senses, she is the coda to the arms race that captured Starfleet in fits and bursts between 2285 and 2315.
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"The Grand Fleet" - STARRON 1 over Khepri (Regulus III) at the end of Exercise Androcles, Summer 2265.
Art by
@AventineIss
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Nyota Uhura, early 2290s. Born in Kenya, Earth, the loy 2290s. Part of the USS Enterprises' staff for most of her career, her expertise was also vital to the breaking of the Klingon Qu'Mac code. She would retire in 2333 after a long career as the Captain of the USS Leondegrance.
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PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH: The End of the Federation-Klingon Cold War (2285-2293)
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Pan-American star liner Clipper Maid of the Stars, summer 2263.
Despite the speed and range advantages nacelle designs offered, cylindrical warp drives were still preferred for passenger travel due to the smoother ride.
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Federation Infantry Squad, 2261-2274.
While the Starfleet Marines and Shipboard Security retained the Phaser Rifle as the main weapon, the FGF's shift to the M1P2 SLC (Self-Loading Carbine) represented a choice for accurate, rapid-fire over raw firepower or wide-beam settings.
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UNDERSTANDING THE STARFLEET CHAIN OF COMMAND
The Federation Star fleet is one of the largest organisations in the galaxy, with a large purview including exploration, peacekeeping and general support efforts. As such, it's chain of command is somewhat confusing 1/
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"We won't break the Klingons because we have better ships and bolder captains. We don't. We'll beat them because we strike fair deals and keep the trade lanes open, and they don't." - Nilz Baris, 2275.
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#StrangeNewWorlds
#StrangeNewWorldsSpoilers
USS Enterprise docks at Starbase One, April 2259. For most of her career, Enterprise served as the Flagship of the First Fleet, Starfleet's primary exploratory formation.
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New Jersey was taking off the active list in 2293, and was assigned to Training Command, as a cadet ship operating out of the Engineering School at Norfolk. She was retired in 2331, before being donated to the fleet museum.
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"I think I've had all the fill of Armageddon for one lifetime." - Sairose Fitzpatrick.
With the government consumed by scandal, Federation and Empire teeter on the brink of total war.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN OF THE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT IS OUT NOW
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Despite several proposals to upgrade her to TMP refit standards, New Jersey's long range patrols in the Kzinti sector and neutral zone kept her in space for too long for any major retrofit.
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The 12 months after August 2267 would be described by James Komack as Starfleet 'annus miserabilis'. Before the end of 2268, Over 30% of Starfleet's line cruiser force would be damaged or destroyed 4 of the 12 Constitution-Class Starships were lost, all to accidents or disasters.
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The Aurora Class Light or “Anti-Cloak” Frigate emerged from the alterations to the Columbia class design brief in the early 2270s. With the Admiralty shifting the Columbia from a tactical corvette to a fast, response ship, the need to fulfil the original brief re-emerged.
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"The Glamour Boys"
DESRON 2 forms up with elements of the Federation Border Patrol during Exercise Ashopa, Summer 2265.
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Please stop arguing about canon ship designs: that's how the Klingons win!
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"Starfleet Captains...found new and unique ways to interpret the rules of engagement to ensure that the Klingons understood in their own language that the 'earther empire' were not the cowards the propaganda made them look like." - TK Robson, 'To Prevent Hell'.
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Earlier variants of the famed D7 - those built before L'rells seizure of power - were not equipped with Torpedo Tubes. The D7, D7-A and D7-B instead carried magnetic charges designed to overwhelm a target's power systems during an attack.
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"The Red Devils" - Centrefold from the Federal Post magazine, 2264.
The Battle of Kobax (June 25th-July 10th 2263) saw the much maligned Federation Ground Forces best the Klingon Army after an audacious contested landing on a hostile world.
Art by
@crwlls
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"The only thing more tedious than a Vulcan talking about logic is a Vulcan explaining why they're not really racist." - Lorna McClaren
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British Rail poster, 2276.
The arrival of civilian-rated Marvick engines in the late 50s and early 60s would launch a "transport revolution": even if rapid communication remained fraught, journey times rapidly truncated across the final 40 years of the 23rd century.
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While technically outclassed by 2260, the Nimitz Class would remain a popular and effective command ship until the mid 2270s, thanks to its ability to sustain Warp 7.5 for long periods; a speed unmatched by other ships of its size.
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ON THIS DAY: JUNE 4TH 2267
USS Danielle Poole, on patrol on the spinward side of the Alshanai Rift, is stopped by three Klingon warships, who demand to board her under the rules of the Imperial Control Region.
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"People spend too much time worrying about how liberal our society is, and how wishy washy our politicians are. When wishy washy liberals on earth got threatened, they figured out how to drop a sun on a city." - Admiral Chrisjen Paris
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USS Star League, launched in 2262, was the second Federation class "Dreadnought" to enter service. Upgraded to TMP standards in 2275, the Star League would remain on the active service until 2321, when she was moved to the reserve duty roster.
One thing I really appreciated, and I think is absolutely clever in hindsight, in JTVFX's video on
#Wolf359
was the inclusion of the USS Star League (NCC-2101) in the fleet that tackles Locutus' cube.
#StarTrek
#StarTrekTheNextGeneration
#BattleofWolf359
#Starfleet
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"Every time I see a Proxima, I am surprised it hasn't flown itself apart." - Angela Fukuhara.
The Proxima Class was Starfleet's first real super-capital ship. Designed in the late 2240s before rapid approval during T'Kuvma's War, the Proxima class took nearly a decade to refine.
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USS Pioneer, first of her class, was launched in 2247. Commissioned as a "Light Cruiser", but built closer to a frigate specification, Pioneer was designed to act alongside Constitution, Saladin and Hermes as part of the aborted "fleet 2245" programme.
On the Lower Level of the Station, we have the Saber Class USS Argo. Being repaired at the moment is the USS Pioneer, which eagle eyed viewers might have caught in the end credit sequence. A little ship called the USS Defiant, and a fully intact Romulan Warbird.
#StarTrekPicard
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"A journalist once asked me why the Federation doesn't invest more in orbital habitats. I told her the same thing I'll tell you: O'Neill Cylinders are for miserable people who can't imagine living in peace and harmony with everyone they meet." - Lorna McClaren.
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#StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds
#StrangeNewWorlds
USS Farragut, mid-2260s. Designed and built as a Mayflower class vessel in the early 2240s, she was crippled in 2259 by a dikronium cloud creature that killed 2/3rds of her crew. She was rebuilt along Constitution class lines.
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UPDATED: Federation and Klingon Starships list.
The lists of Starships featured in THE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT has been updated, now including an explanation of Imperial Klingon Navy Alphanumeric code.
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ON THIS DAY: JUNE 3RD 2267
Starfleet Operations informs the Admiralty that due to technical issues, 6 reserve "battle line" vessels (USS South Carolina, USS Maxwell Forrest, USS Kimberly Scott, USS Sotek and USS Bretagne) will not be available before the beginning of July.
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"The Admirals Have Arrived" (2287)
By Bernardo Kafati [2231-2334]
Gouache on Mixed Paper
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(Hi everyone! Thank you so much for all the love and appreciation of the project. Thought I'd take a minute to re-introduce myself and Edge of Midnight properly.)
See?! I love THIS! Fan imagination! Filling in the holes. Saying "Yes and!" not "No, actually!" Reminds me of a magical time long gone. Before social media and algorithms. Where fandoms had to actually physically gather to discuss Trek. It was hard. Imagine not being able
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"Stay off the Lawn"
On the edge of the Acamar exclusion zone, USS Hong Kong confronts a Klingon Cruiser.
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"The Federation is the biggest loser from the STAR treaty; its' existence supports monetary trade, interplanetary capitalism, and the accumulation of wealth; all things we oppose. But the consequences of abandoning free trade to spite others would destroy us all." - Nancy Hedford
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USS Enterprise at Starbase One, 2260. First Fleet - the primary exploratory formation of Starfleet would command the majority of Constitution classes until the early 2270s, thanks to the "April Doctrine" which prioritised long range exploration over tactical operations.
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The Akula Class destroyer emerged in the late 2260s and early 2270s. Designed to make the new D18 Destroyer in speed and maneuver ability.
The Akula's dramatic success would eclipse the Saladin-refit programme in production.
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"Every time I see a new government-issued starchart, I have to stop myself from having the whole department sent to Tantalus V." - Finance Commissioner Lorna McClaren, 2264
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"Rendezvous in the Federation Phalanx" - advertisement by Vickers-Armstrong, 2261.
Despite the end of monetary capitalism, non-state engineering companies - closer to cooperatives than their pre-modern namesakes, still play a vital role in Starfleet contracting and construction.
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USS Bertram Ramsay during Underway replenishment, 2261. The costly refit of 7 Nimitz Class vessels with Marvick Drives would prove to be a resounding success: some remain in service today as tenders, training shops and testbeds.
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NEW TO THE WEBSITE: STELLAR CARTOGRAPHY
Explore the worlds of the disputed area in this annotated map, based on the fantastic ongoing work of
@DEWLineO
.
Find out more HERE
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Regulation Full Landing Party, 2256-61.
While, on most occassions, Starfleet Captains would opt to only deploy one or two Security Teams at a time, the tradition of an ostensibly lightly-armed and highly visible security presence remained even after the Klingon War.
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ON THIS DAY: December 7th 2269:
After significant delays, upsets and allocations battles, Starfleet announces the Total Modification Programme - or TMP - to the press.
Starfleet Training Video "Make TMP Work for You", 2274.
The complete overheal of almost every starship system by the Total Modification Programme (TMP) required extensive retraining but resulted in a more streamlined, unified fleet.
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"Ah, the JAG Office. Where 23rd-century progress goes to die." - Admiral Robert Comsol.
#StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds
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The Thesus class "Escort Cruiser" was developed in the 2250s as a counter to increased raiding in the Kzinti and Gorn regions. With high speeds, a powerful sensor suite and slightly more weapons than a Constitution, it was the perfect fast response ship in a crisis.
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"Rendevous in the Federation Phalanx" - Advertisement from Vickers Armstrong, 2261.
The British Isles-based engineering conglomerate was one of Starfleet's key contractors during the 2250s and 60s, taking over the construction of almost all destroyers and scouts by 2265.
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"Even the incredible technology of the Constitution class has limitations. Without the Starfleet Corps of Engineers and Transport Command to back us up, none of the five year missions would be possible." - Captain Ishita Chandran, 2270.
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"May Sturka, praised leader of the Klingon Empire, endure a long life!" - Propaganda Poster, 2265.
Despite being in power for a mere seven years, Sturka's influence, governing style and iron will transformed the Klingon Empire forever.
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"You can dream all you want about strange new worlds, but nine times out of ten you're not pushing the frontier in a Constitution Class: you're just some shithead in a scout ship stuck on Asteroid Miner Protection Duty."
- Gwyneth Fukuhara
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The Cover of THE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT Book One: The Business of Risk. A full polished and final PDF of book one should be available for all by the end of 2022, with a printed book available in the New Year.
Cover by
@thomasthecat
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"To those who did not grow up there, the level of paradise on earth is incomprehensible. These are people who cannot understand why someone would burgle a house, let alone commit murder." - Phillipe Mohran, Journalist and Writer
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USS Molly Cobb and USS Ed Baldwin, 2263. The last production run of Shepard Class vessels - named after the generation of NASA astronauts who pioneered permanent habitation on Luna and Mars - would all be refitted for the Marvick drive between 2260 and 2264.
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"Fleet Tenders and Auxiliary craft are the backbone of Starfleet's Logistical chain. They are the lifeblood of the Starbase system and the exploratory fleet; without them, the Five Year Mission would not be possible."
- The Starfleet Operations Handbook, Ninth Edition (2260)
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"Bird Strikes"
USS Hengist and Horsa risk Klingon disruptor fire to take atmospheric scans of Long-Range Interstellar Missile Silos on Acamar, late July 2262.
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ON THIS DAY: 12th May 2267
The "Battle Fleet" of the Imperial Klingon Navy is ordered to assume it's pre-war deployment positions. For the first time, all 35 battleships, dreadnoughts and pocket battleships of the Imperial Navy will be fully crewed and armed for war.
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BBC Interstellar Service is available at Subspace Frequency 198, Channel E/502 and on all interlinked Federation Networks.
And now, for the news.
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The Gemini Class Starship was originally commissioned as a replacement for the Cardenas and Nimitz class vessels. Design creep in the 2250s - exacerbated by the Klingon War - resulted in a "cruiser" with 1/3 more tonnage than a Constitution and twice the firepower.
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"An eloquent Romulan can easily convince you that the Star Empire is a more perfect democracy than the Federation. Until you ask them if the Remans can vote." - Robert Fox, 2273.
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NEW TO THE WEBSITE: THE GUIDE TO THE PALAIS DE CONCORDE
"No Doors We Open Can Shut For A Thousand Years" - Lines by Helene Margaret, carved above the main steps into the Palais de Concorde.
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"You cannot pick and choose who gets to participate in Utopia." - Ken Wescott.
Anti-Illyrian and genetic modification posters from the 2264 election. The legacy of this period would haunt the UFP for the rest of the century as a stain on the dream of universal democracy.
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"This is Democracy, Manifest!"
Le Monde Cartoon, 13th July 2262, by Mo'slev L'Alven.
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"Aggressive Inspections."
USS A.G. Robinson takes a phaser volley from the Acamarian Frigate "Victor". The Revolutionary government of Acamar's determination to prove it's legitimacy through violence would put them on a collision course with Starfleet in summer 2262.
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"You humans speak with a lot of confidence for a society who haven't had to pay income tax for 180 years." - Bolian Ambassador Viuone to President McClaren, 2269
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"You ask me what the purpose of the Federation is? What the purpose of my office is? It is to eliminate poverty, war and disease. It is to eradicate want, ignorance and bigotry, not just in our own space, but across the quadrant. Nothing too complicated." - Ken Wescott, 2265.
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"The Battlewagons."
The D9 'Heavy Battle Cruiser' was an early Klingon attempt to create modern capital ships. First launched in 2248, the D9 would only go into full production after T'Kuvma's war.
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ON THIS DAY: 21 April 2267
Starfleet Command authorizes the transfer of the Atlas, Perseus and Federation Class vessels from the central reserves to the 2nd, 4th and 7th fleets. It is the first step of Starfleet's war preparation measures.
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The Strider class scout was designed to replace Archer class vessels in the tactical role, freeing the latter for exploratory use. The Strider proved to be a resounding success, remaining in service with Starfleet until the 2320s: some are still in use with planetary forces.
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Excerpt from "Superman Smashes the Klingons!" (NDC
#89
, 2275).
After a long dormancy maintained by a cult following in the 22nd century, the mythological earth hero "Superman" would receive a new lease of life after the founding of New Detective Comics in 2268.
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"Urban life of the 23rd century would seem very strange to the pre-atomic person...the suburb is dead; the commute is dead; the great cities are more vibrant than one can imagine: because, for the first time in centuries, communities actually live there." - Cyruk Snall
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His Excellency Kenneth Sidney Wescott: 19th President of the United Federation of Planets.
Reformer, Progressive Charterite, Leader of the Federation through the prelude to the Organian War, Wescott was one of the most important leaders in the Federation's history.
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"Replenishment at Sea"
On the edge of the Vota Star Cluster, the USS Bertram Ramsay undergoes a rapid resupply operation.
Render by
@_Pundus_
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NOW AVAILABLE AS A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD: THE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT BOOK ONE: THE BUSINESS OF RISK.
Covering from the end of the Klingon War to the final days of the Raktajino Revolution, this first volume sets the bloody stage for nearly 30 years of conflict.
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"Bird Strikes"
Already under heavy fire from planetary disruptor beams and Klingon interceptors, Scouts USS Hengist and USS Horsa begin their photo-imaging run on the Klingon base on Acamar.
Both captains were under direct orders to report all damage as "bird strikes."
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"The whole fleet? In one place? Have you people never heard of Pearl Harbour?" - Admiral Nogura, on the shelves plans for Federation Day, 2261
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"And so, the age of heroes ends. The bat'leth is laid down for the disruptor; the ballad and songs are replaced by the bureaucrat's workbook: and the warrior's epic battle is lost to the cold efficiency of the planetary bombardment." - E'Wek, 'The New Era', 2262
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The Watchtower class Starbase was the largest single-build* space installation Starfleet would construct before the completion of Earth Spacedock. 18 would be constructed between 2240 and 2279.
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"The Unsinkable Molly Cobb" : despite her age and poor design, the USS Molly Cobb would survive several relentless Klingon attacks during the Battle of Caleb IV.
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NEW TO THE WEBSITE: THE PIKE LETTERS
Written by Vaughan Rittenhouse across 2260, these letter to Nogura detail the Admiral's increasing disapproval of the conduct of Captain Christopher Pike and 1st Fleet.
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ON THIS DAY: 8th September 2265
Upon returning from Enterprise's expedition to the Galactic Barrier, Commander James T. Kirk's promotion to full Captain is confirmed.
#StarTrekDay
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USS Bertram Ramsay, Konig and Vela Gap on patrol in the Vota Star Cluster, 2259. Under the command of Commodore Moody, USS Bertram Ramsay would command "Task Force Blackfriar" for two and half years before the unit was disbanded under Admiral Rittenhouse.
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Proper studies of Klingon working class sociology - and history - have only begun in the Federation since the 2330s.
A lie spread by old UFP propaganda says all Klingons are soldiers. In fact less than 1% belong to the warrior caste. Visit Qo’noS yourself! Hike the 12 Sisters of the Kra’ta Plains. Eat in the Old Market of Quin’lat. Attend the yobta’ yupma’ Festival in the First City!
#StarTrek
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"While the general public - and the press office - would like to believe that a Starship is a village of its own, capable of self-sufficiency for decades at a time, this is a misnomer." - The Starfleet Operations Handbook, Ninth Edition (2260)
READ MORE
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For more on Starfleet in the 23rd century - and the road to the Organian War of 2267 - check out
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The Malachowski and it's subclasses were, in many ways, the archetypal starship design of the 2240s and 50s.
Fast, cheap to build and more than a match for Orion, Tholian and Kzin raiders, it's role as a line cruiser and explorer was ended by the ascent of the D7 Battlecruiser.
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"When we understand Klingon religion, we will understand their culture. So long as we sniff at their rituals and deride their prayers, we will never understand who they are and what they treasure." - Malcolm Yu, attache to the Federation Embassy on Qo'noS, 2270.
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Starfleet Marines in Action, 2287. From 2280 onwards, most Federation Starships would carry a complement of Marines - usually a reinforced Platoon on Class I vessels - to supplement onboard security detachments.
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"The Federation has conquered want, poverty and idleness. Money is the toy of children and fools. Which is, of course, why Starfleet and the Federation Ground Forces compete to offer the best pay rates for enlistees in the currency of their choice."
- Admiral Agatha Drake
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"We're game for anything, General, so long as there aren't any damned bridges involved." - Colonel Hammond, 2nd Parachute Regiment, to General Th’kinnis’h, GOC 1st Orbital Division.
#Arnhem80
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"The politicians always ask me why I authorise more reconnaissance missions when we can just use subspace satellites. And sure, the Epislion stations are perfect for monitoring the Klingon Empire; if we want to know what they were up to during World War Two."
- Admiral Nogura
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In the aftermath of the Klingons breaking of the AP56 Code, Starfleet Command would resort to drastic security measures. The most noticeable change was the "Gutenberg Directive", which ordered that all Top Secret and Alpha Priority orders could only be held as physical copies.
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